Former WTVH anchor and Central New York native David Muir was promoted Tuesday to co-anchor of the ABC News primetime magazine 20/20.  Muir will join Elizabeth Vargas on the broadcast.  He replaces Chris Cuomo who announced he was leaving to join CNN to anchor a morning program on the all news network.

Muir joined ABC News in 2003, but began his career while still a student at Onondaga Central High School, hanging around the newsroom and interning at WTVH.   He was hired by WTVH after graduating Ithaca College in 1995 working as a reporter and an anchor at at the station.  He departed inl 2000, for a job at the ABC affiliate in Boston. 

Publishers of the Oneida Daily Dispatch announced Wednesday that the paper would add a six section Sunday edition.  But at the same time, the paper announced it would publish a total of just three days a week;  Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday.

Former Newschannel 9 chief meteorologist Dave Eichorn has joined the Syracuse Media Group, the company announced Thursday.  Syracuse Media Group was formed by Advance to publish The Post-Standard and syracuse.com. 

Eichorn spent 19 years at Newschannel 9, leaving the station in 2008. Since leaving the television station Eichorn has run his own weather business, taught at SUNY Oswego and ESF and providing weather for radio station Y94-FM.